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The Last Lancastrian: A Story of Margaret Beaufort (Plantagenet Embers) Kindle Edition
Margaret Beaufort is remembered as a pious and formidable woman. Before she was the king's mother, she was a young wife who was desperate to secure her son's future. Take a peek into the life of Margaret Beaufort before she dreamed of a Tudor dynasty.
The Plantagenet Embers Series:
Plantagenet Princess, Tudor Queen: The Story of Elizabeth of York
Faithful Traitor: The Story of Margaret Pole
Queen of Martyrs: The Story of Mary I
The Last Lancastrian: A Story of Margaret Beaufort (novella)
Once a Queen: A Story of Elizabeth Woodville (novella)
Prince of York: A Story of Reginald Pole (novella)
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateOctober 14, 2017
- File size1.4 MB
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The Plantagenet Embers Series
From the Wars of the Roses to the Reformation . . . an emotive journey into the early Tudor era.
Told through the intimate experiences of historical figures Elizabeth of York, Margaret Pole, and Queen Mary I, the Plantagenet Embers trilogy transports the reader to 15th and 16th century England. This series of emotive tales includes three novels available in Kindle, paperback, hardcover or audiobook formats.
Companion Reads! Three novellas featuring Margaret Beaufort, Elizabeth Woodville, and Reginald Pole are also available in Kindle, paperback, or hardcover formats.
Editorial Reviews
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"She has a gift for putting the reader inside the head of characters who may appear to be on the sidelines of history but who are actually quiet makers of history themselves. (Well, not necessarily, THAT quiet.) In this way, the reader feels the sense of history the way it must have been for those living in it." ~ Blair Hodgkinson, Goodreads
"The sweet moments between her and Henry Stafford were what I didn't know I needed." ~ Kirsten Muller, Goodreads
Product details
- ASIN : B076H8BBWM
- Publisher : Samantha Wilcoxson (October 14, 2017)
- Publication date : October 14, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 1.4 MB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 68 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #300,100 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #387 in Medieval Historical Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #438 in British & Irish Literature
- #619 in Historical European Fiction
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About the author

Samantha Wilcoxson is an author of emotive biographical fiction and nonfiction featuring history's unsung heroes. She loves sharing trips to historic places with her family and spending time by the lake with a glass of wine. Her most recent work is a biography of James Alexander Hamilton published by Pen & Sword History. Samantha is currently writing a Wars of the Roses trilogy for Sapere Books.
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Customers enjoyed the believable story and found the book entertaining. They appreciated the depiction of Margaret Beaufort.
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Customers enjoy the book's readability. They say it's an engaging novella that adds to the series and provides a few hours of entertainment.
"A good solid read if not particularly exciting. If you love that era as I do, you’ll appreciate this view of Margaret and the others...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2024Maybe I shouldn't have read this book last in the series, as the softer version of Margaret Beaufort is here. You cannot doubt her love for Harry Stafford, as well as you cannot doubt her view of her self importance. Yes, she truly loves Henry and was highly instrumental in his becoming Henry VII. But what if she just stayed a loving mother and stopped her political conniving? Another portrait of a woman who truly changed history by her choices.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2018I really enjoyed this depicted version of Margaret. Though this is the polar opposite of every other book about Margaret, it makes me wonder how accurate it shows her actions. But,I thoroughly enjoy it. My only complaint is it ended too soon.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2017I enjoyed the book except the ending
- Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2019I enjoyed how the author brought a different light to the infamous woman who gave birth to the tudors. I especially enjoyed seeing her in a much more humbly light and not as a notorious, self serving woman. In this book she has been shown as we all are, human.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2019A good solid read if not particularly exciting. If you love that era as I do, you’ll appreciate this view of Margaret and the others. The history portrayed here is fascinating .
- Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2017Fantastic novella about Margaret Beaufort. For me, it filled in a gap in her story - the years of her marriage to Henry Stafford - during the last years of the Wars of the Roses. Wilcoxson brings Margaret Beaufort to life as a loving wife and mother - so different from the commonly portrayed view of Beaufort as a cold calculating woman.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2018recommend this book
- Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2022You need to know the details of the War of the Roses before reading this. I mean KNOW the details. I thought I did. I'm 25% into the book and I am so lost.
Top reviews from other countries
- MaxwellReviewed in the United Kingdom on January 23, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy read
Excellent and informative book. Appears well researched and written by this author.
- presterjohn1Reviewed in Canada on December 4, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice tie-in to the Plantagenet Embers series
This novella ties in nicely to the longer novels in Samantha Wilcoxson's Plantagenet Embers series, providing considerable insight into her imagining of the character of Margaret Beaufort, a controversial woman whose role in the rise of the Tudor dynasty remains a subject for discussion and debate to this day. Wilcoxson's portrait of Margaret is of a competent, strong, pious woman, a dedicated mother and a devoted wife, but she is also filled with self-doubt and the conflict that tears at anyone looking to make the best world for her child in bad times. As I've said in other reviews of this author's work, she has a gift for putting the reader inside the head of characters who may appear to be on the sidelines of history (they tend to receive news of kings and battles by messenger rather than being present for themselves) but who are actually quiet makers of history themselves. (Well, not necessarily, THAT quiet.) In this way, the reader feels the sense of history the way it must have been for those living in it... with joy at good news, horror at bad news, and fearful when there was no news. It's an effective technique in the right author's hands, and this is the right author. Period detail seems to check out nicely and the author keeps the myriad Henrys, Richards and Edwards of the Wars of the Roses clearly separated during the course of laying out the story. It's a short read, but I definitely recommend it, especially in connection with Plantagenet Princess, Tudor Queen, to which it could be considered almost a parallel prequel narrative.
- nina richardsonReviewed in Australia on February 14, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
A bloody good read
- patReviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2019
3.0 out of 5 stars The last Lancastrian
I needed to know more about Margaret Beaufort and this book helped satisfy my curiosity. It did not particularly hold my interest although this was not the fault of the author.
- JReviewed in Australia on February 7, 2021
4.0 out of 5 stars Kindle book
It’s a kindle book